Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads

posted at 8:01 am on December 8, 2013 by Allahpundit

The Sunday shows say their farewells to Nelson Mandela this morning by celebrating his legacy of racial reconciliation with special guests … Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It was Sharpton, in fact, whose genius inspired Chris Matthews to wonder why the GOP can’t be more reasonable like South Africa’s apartheid government, so look forward to some more opportunistic partisan “wisdom” along those lines.

If that doesn’t sound fun, Rand Paul will be on “Fox News Sunday” to argue that maybe, after 40 years of big government, it’s time for Detroit to try something else. The full line-up is at Politico.

Balance the nonsense out with some cool, critical understanding and knowledge of what Dan Greenfield (Sultan Knish) and David Horowitz have to say.

Besides Mandela’s reach out to communist regimes, he never spoke out about the atrocities committed by his political group. The rapes and ugly bloodshed continue to this day. South Africa is in worse shape today, driven by racially driven (and not even logical) retribution.

Our politicians and talking heads have jumped on the bandwagon to create and perpetuate the myth of Manela.

Despite decades of Nelson Mandela denying that he was an official member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) during his Soviet-backed war on the Apartheid government, evidence uncovered recently by British historian Stephen Ellis shows otherwise. The new research confirmed that not only was the African National Congress (ANC) leader a member of the SACP, he may have actually been a senior official working with the party’s Central Committee.

Still, for 50 years, while admitting that he was influenced by Marx and other communist luminaries, Mandela has denied — in public, at least — that he was an actual member of the Communist Party. But now, documents discovered at the University of Cape Town by Stephen Ellis, a professor based at the Free University of Amsterdam, completely contradict Mandela’s bogus claims…

Among other evidence, Ellis found minutes from a secret SACP meeting of top leaders in 1982. The papers document a high-level Communist Party functionary’s discussion about Mandela having joined the SACP around 20 years earlier. That would mean he joined in the beginning of the 1960s, probably 1961 or 1962, well before he was prosecuted for, among numerous other crimes, membership in the outlaw party backed by some of the most ruthless tyrants on the face of the Earth.

Mandela was no Washington or Ghandi either. workingclass artist on December 8, 2013 at 9:40 AM

Ghandi was no Ghandi neither.

How unsavory? Well, there’s no doubting that Gandhi had little time for black people. During his 21 years in South Africa, he repeatedly expressed contempt for the native population, claiming they were no better than the “untouchables” of Indian society. One speech in particular stands out. In 1896, he was quoted as referring to black South Africans as the “raw kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

David Horowitz has this guys number. He never met a terrorist he didn’t like including Fidel and all the rest.
and as far as his legacy of South Africa, its here:

“South Africa is the murder capital of the world, a nation where a woman is raped every 30 seconds, often by AIDs carriers who go unpunished, and where whites are anything but the citizens of a democratic country which honors the principles of equality and freedom.

Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and promptly forgot about.”

How unsavory? Well, there’s no doubting that Gandhi had little time for black people. During his 21 years in South Africa, he repeatedly expressed contempt for the native population, claiming they were no better than the “untouchables” of Indian society. One speech in particular stands out. In 1896, he was quoted as referring to black South Africans as the “raw kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

Akzed on December 8, 2013 at 9:46 AM

“During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned for challenging apartheid. He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following the 1960 banning of the ANC, he went underground, adopting a number of disguises–sometimes a laborer, other times a chauffeur. The press dubbed him “the Black Pimpernel” because of his ability to evade police.

During this time, he and other ANC leaders formed its armed wing–Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief.

That “armed wing” carried out terror attacks at shopping centers, movie theaters and other civilian targets, not just “establishment” ones like courts and banks.

These attacks blew many innocent whites and blacks to bits.

(Note: some of these crime scene photos are disturbing.)

And when Mandela was arrested, the authorities claimed to have uncovered “210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate, 21.6 tons of aluminium powder and 1 ton of black powder.”

“Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists. Here are some highlights

Tellingly, not only did Mandela refuse to renounce violence, Amnesty refused to take his case stating “[the] movement recorded that it could not give the name of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ to anyone associated with violence, even though as in ‘conventional warfare’ a degree of restraint may be exercised.”

The apartheid regime was a crime against humanity; as illogical as it was cruel. It is tempting, therefore, to simplify the subject by declaring that all who opposed it were wholly and unswervingly good. It’s important to remember, however, that Mandela has been the first to hold his hands up to his shortcomings and mistakes. In books and speeches, he goes to great length to admit his errors. The real tragedy is that too many in the West can’t bring themselves to see what the great man himself has said all along; that he’s just as flawed as the rest of us, and should not be put on a pedestal…” –
Deputy Political Editor Lee Jenkins

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Great post. I had a similar comment but guess it got pulled.
Here’s a clip from that same link regarding Mandella’s “legacy”:

“South Africa is the murder capital of the world, a nation where a woman is raped every 30 seconds, often by AIDs carriers who go unpunished, and where whites are anything but the citizens of a democratic country which honors the principles of equality and freedom.

Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and promptly forgot about.”

What’s this “Conservative” argument for Nelson? “Well, he could have been involved in many more acts of deadly terrorism, if only he were vengeful…since he wasn’t as depraved as Che or Josef, let’s ignore those unplesantries about him & instead start praising him as a great man!”

I can’t wait to hear the “Conservative” defense of his economic/political “wisdom” next…

What’s this “Conservative” argument for Nelson? “Well, he could have been involved in many more acts of deadly terrorism, if only he were vengeful…since he wasn’t as depraved as Che or Josef, let’s ignore those unplesantries about him & instead start praising him as a great man!”

I can’t wait to hear the “Conservative” defense of his economic/political “wisdom” next…

Anti-Control on December 8, 2013 at 10:53 AM

I know, it’s all rather bizarre.

It just goes to show that the “conservative movement” — the “thought-leaders” and talking heads — are nothing more than token opposition for the Ruling Left. The communists of yesteryear become the celebrated saints of today.

Only the president of the United States or the Governor of the state may order the flag to be at half-staff to honor the death of a national or state figure. In addition to the traditional half-staff salutes, the Flag Code mentions the use of our Flag for honoring leading citizens such as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Private citizens and non government buildings may choose to fly their flags at half staff to honor more local leaders. The Flag Code does not exclude any citizen, whether they belong to an organization or not, whether they are recognized very locally or regionally.

Examples of deceased citizens that might be honored with by lowering the Flag to half-staff include local religious leaders, youth leaders, honored teachers or sports coaches, local politicians, or a local hero. There need be no authorization from the government for the private sector (non-government) to use the Flag to honor any citizen.

At the doctor this morning, but in light of the scheduled orgy of liberal stupidity, I don’t feel to bad about the tardiness.

But of course, that just makes it Sunday, right? Let’s have another gander at how our DNC/Lapdog Liberal press advances the government’s liberal agenda in the form of pure propaganda this morning, this time with the whole-hearted participation from Republicans and a Clown Brigade of Race Victims:

“Meet the Press” on NBC
• Rev. Jesse Jackson
• Rev. Al Sharpton

Hahahahahahaha … OK, despite the full approval of Mandela’s terrorist activities from MK Ham and Newt and virtually every elected Republican in America, they are still NBC, after all. All racist-race-victimhood, all the time.

“Face the Nation” on CBS
• Former Secretary of State James Baker
• Poet Maya Angelou
• Interim NAACP President Lorraine Miller

But of course … Fox.
First working brain – the moderator Chris Wallace.
First voice that is not part of The Collective – Rand Paul.
A representative from the Kook Left, of course.
And O.M.G. – an actual participant in the profoundly controversial public policy known as “Apartheid”, Pik Botha.

Fox almost always stands out as the only practicing news channel with the guts to actually give voice to both sides of an issue, or all sides, but this week they actually shame their unworthy competitors.

Alas, they are shameless. Cheers, all. I will be reading an actual printed book today (American Sniper) partly in protest of the increasingly liberal-dominated NFL. TV off until Blackhawks game.

hey jack-wagon,
where is your compassion for the people this communist terrorist murdered,
you know blowing up train stations, shopping malls, etc …
and then there are the neck-lacing that he is responsible for …
you know … beat the heck out of someone and tie them up with barbwire
then put a gas soaked tire around their neck and light it …
where is your compassion for those.
an astonishingly wise, patient, and compassionate person? give me a break.
I hope Hell is hot enough for him.

Since Mandela took over, South Africa has become a Third World country. It went from being the safest country in Africa, to being the rape and murder capital of the world. In Johannesburg, 5,000 people are murdered every year. Unemployment went from 5% in 1994 to 50% today.

South Africa also has the largest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in the world. In 2007, over 18% of adults, or 5,700,000 people had AIDS. In 2010, an estimated 280,000 died of AIDS.

Looking beyond the media myth of a “demigod Mandela” as he faces his twilight, one can only say, “good riddance.”

Since this Sunday was the semi-official Remembering Nelson Mandela Day, I’ll throw this out here:

See Invictus, the movie with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon directed by Clint Eastwood a few years ago. It’s about how Mandela, shortly after becoming president, decided that one of the best things he could do to help unite South Africa after apartheid was to openly cheer on the almost all-white national rugby team, even as most black South Africans cheered against the team because they were mostly white.

Since this Sunday was the semi-official Remembering Nelson Mandela Day, I’ll throw this out here:

See Invictus, the movie with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon directed by Clint Eastwood a few years ago. It’s about how Mandela, shortly after becoming president, decided that one of the best things he could do to help unite South Africa after apartheid was to openly cheer on the almost all-white national rugby team, even as most black South Africans cheered against the team because they were mostly white.

Good flick.

JimLennon on December 8, 2013 at 5:11 PM

That was a hugely unifying moment for SA’cans. The videos of the celebrations are heartwarming.